good afternoon, everybody i have a 03 f-150 4x4 4.6 200000 + setting at a red light seen oil pressure gauge fluctuating and went to the next light quite full of oil at the house broke out the code box and it give 2 codes knock sensor and miss fire in the first 1000 revolution it will still turn over but no start went a head and change plugs and getting fire but it is orange and not blue check fuel pressure and it was 40 lbs checked grounds insiode cab and out compression is anywhere from 105 to 120 i know it is a little low but should do something what am i forgetting to do

 

Try a "flood clear start"
Try ether (starting fluid)

 

What does "quite full of oil" mean? Overfull?

How did the old spark plugs look? Clean? Fouled?

Did it stay running all the way to the house, but never restarted after you shut it off? Or did it die at the light and you had it towed home?

 

Did you check the fuel pressure regulator?

 

any codes???

 

sorry at the next light it quit had it towed to the house check oil at the house it was full
the plugs looked black
it quit at the light and has not started back

 

po325 knock sensor
po316 miss fire in first 1000 revolution

 

no not yet

 

How do you ask a moderator where a person's reply went? I wrote a whole paragaph. The site glitched out, the thread dispappeared, now it's back but my reply is gone.

 

Check your fuel pressure regulator vacuum hose for raw gasoline. They can leak but still control pressure. It can flood the engine.

 

@BareBonesXL Just dropping in to say hello, and to let you know that we received your post report, so you definitely figured out how to reach a moderator.

While it is doubtful that your post is retrievable if the thread went offline between the time you began typing the whole paragraph, and the time that you hit the "Submit Reply" button, if you can still provide an approximate time (and time zone please) when you typed your paragraph that never appeared, I'll be happy to look into it.

Depending on your cookie and browser settings, sometimes it is possible to retrieve what you typed on your own device, by hitting the back button repeatedly until you return to the reply window just before you hit Submit Reply. On a Windows computer, an even faster way is to right click the browser back button, and then scan the drop down menu for an earlier visit to this thread, prior to your two most recent posts.

We know exactly why this thread dropped out for a little while... and the reason had nothing to do with anything you did or were trying to post. I know how frustrating it can be to take the time to type something out, only for it to disappear, and I apologize that your post just so happened to get caught in the crossfire.

 

Thanks for the reply. I had actually used the back button to see if my reply was still there and it was. But when the thread disappeared entirely from the list of threads I assumed that the owner had deleted it or violated some rule and a mod deleted it, so didn't bother saving the reply.

So, why, exactly, did the thread disappear/drop out? That would probably help the most in avoiding a similar situation in the future. Plus it's more interesting. Does it need to be secret?

@Y2KW57 Seriously, wondering. Thanks for running a good forum.

 

I have learned the hard way, more than once, that any time I type a reply that I have ended up investing a lot of time in, to first select all and copy the reply into Notepad before hitting "Submit Reply". I know that this may not help most members, who use phones to access FTE, but if using a phone, I would try to find an equivalent "back up" plan with a Notes app of some kind.

There is nothing that any member can do to help avoid a similar situation in the future... except to know that threads can disappear for a brief period of time, and then reappear later. This is more likely to happen with threads authored by brand new members, as opposed to long time members, as there are a number of software filters that analyze new forum activity in comparison to behavioral patterns of past spam activity.

If controls were not put in place, believe me, the forum would be overrun with spam in short order. As patterns emerge, tools are written to counteract those patterns, but tools alone are not enough. Human moderators are called upon to review what software moderation quarantines. Such is the case with this thread, where the software detected something and sequestered the thread, alerting staff, who immediately reviewed and quickly approved the thread.

No morsel of "secret" knowledge will make a difference. There is no way that one member can control or predict the behavior of another member, or the location of another member's IP address, or type of ISP or VPN being used, or sequence of words being typed, or number of posts made, or anything really... so there is no way to avoid the consequences of an emerging pattern that matches a profile that is monitored by software... especially when you have no idea who is participating in the thread that matched the pattern.

This sequence of automated intercession and manual restoration is infrequent, and was developed as a counter measure to a particular type of spam that is seen on other forums besides FTE.

If this is the first time you have experienced a thread disappear and reappear again while you were replying to it in the 966 posts that you've successfully placed on FTE over the last couple of years, then you've been getting away with murder posting freely and unfettered!

In all seriousness though, this tool, and every other moderation process at FTE, is constantly under review, and continually being adjusted to best meet the needs of members like you who care about what's going around here. Thank you for your posts, and your caring.

Enough thread jacking.

Let's get back to helping cooder get that F-150 started.

 

Thanks again. Sounds like you're saying that the forum has spam prevention software that flagged a post, maybe my post, as spam, so it removed the whole thread until you or a fellow moderator could review it. But that wouldn't explain the deletion of my post. Or the software just automatically deleted my post and made it unrestorable, plus took the thread offline, and only the thread itself could be re-energized. Still unclear. Seems like there would be a setting that allowed the replies affected to be restored.

Never seen this before, the disappearing thread, on any of the several forums I participate in. There was one forum that often just didn't save replies when you hit the post button. I have a whole list of replies saved from that forum. But the thread didn't disappear. The reply just didn't post.

Oh well. Carry on. Let's see what cooder finds with his FPR.

 

checked the fuel pressure and it is at 35 to 40 lbs
no raw gas in the vacuum line
and i went a head and change the oil pressure sending unit
no start
now when i tried to start it several times i do not smell gas and use some carb cleaner and it still not start the can was about empty i am going to get another can